Unidentified flying objects: hearing before the Committee on Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session, April 5, 1966 ...

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be inaugurated that presents facts. I ani urging you to support a full con-
gressional open inquiry on the UFO problem.
Sincerely,
RAYMOND E. FOWLER,
Chairman NICAP Massachusetts Subcommittee.
(The attachments to the previous letter are as follows:)
[Excerpt from Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, Sept. 6, 1965]
POLICE, CIVILIANS SIGHT UFO IN EXETLII AREA
EXETER.—At least five people here, including two police officers, have reported
seeing a flying saucer in this area.
The incidents occurred early Friday morning. According to those who saw
the unidentified flying object, it was about the size of a house and had a red
glow around it, and moved silently through the night.
When Exeter police investigated a parked car on the Exeter-Hampton bypass
at about 12:30 investigating officer Eugene Bertrand. who approach the car and
found two women in a state of near shock. They told that they had been chased
along Route 101 all the way from Epping, about 12 miles, by flying object which
glowed with a brilliant halo of red. According to the women, the "thing" fol-
lowed their ear until they stopped.
As the one woman told their story one of them sighted the object once more,
about 2 miles away, which Bertrand thought was a star low on the horizon.
REPORTS CHASE
At 12 a.m., Norman J. Muscarello, 18, of 2051/2 Front Street, Exeter, came into
the police station with a hair-raising report of having been chased by a flying
object as he was hitchhiking toward Exeter on Route 150 in Kensington.
Muscarello told Desk Officer Reginald Poland that as he walked along the
highway, a large, brilliant object began making passes on an adjacent field and
house and along the highway. Not knowing what it was and being understand-
ably shaken, he crouched in a ditch along the road as the object, so brilliantly
red that its shape could not be determined in the glow, made what seemed to
him to be searching passes at him.
Shortly thereafter the "thing" disappeared silently, as quickly as it had ap-
peared. 'Muscarello then hitched a ride to the police station and related what
he had seen.
Athlough Musearello's story was extraordinary, Patrolman Bertrand drove him
back to the scene of the incident in the police cruiser. When they arrived,
nothing was there.
POLICE SEE UFO
Officer Bertrand suggested that they walk into the field where the flying object
was last seen, and they were joined there by Exeter Patrolman David Hunt,
who also drove to the scene. Bertrand was talking reassuringly when Muscarello
shouted "Look, there it is, rising up from behind those trees." The officers spun
around and looked.
From behind a stand of trees in the black of the night, a huge blinding glow
of brilliant red light surrounding it, the object rose, not fast but waveringly.
It traveled slowly and yawed slightly from side to side. They were stunned
by the blinding red light as it moved toward them across the field. The object
seemed to be coming toward them and Bertrand made a move toward his police
service revolver but thought better of it. Then the three men ran to the police
cruisers. When questioned on the size of the object, Officer Bertrand estimated
it to be "about the size of a house."
Usually, when incidents such as this are reported, the sightings take place
over a period of a few seconds, but in this instance, the men observed the object
for 15 or 20 minutes at what appeared to be a relatively short distance.
One of the most amazing points which Officer Bertrand made while being in-
terviewed was the complete absence of sound as the flying object hovered over